The Beacon October 2016 www.beaconhillbenefice.org.uk Llangunllo Beguildy Heyope Bleddfa Melchizedek receiving gifts from Abraham Orbey, France Price: £7 for the year or 70p per copy - 1 - Llangunllo W.I. Invites you to an Open Meeting Tues Oct 4th 7.30 pm Llangunllo Village Hall A Talk by Mr Phil Bowen “My Time as High Sheriff of Powys” £5 - including refreshments All Welcome St Michael’s Beguildy HARVEST FESTIVAL Saturday, October 1st , 7 pm Followed by Harvest Supper Felindre Village Hall WE ARE BACK WITH QUALITY CLOTHING & HOUSEHOLD ITEMS The Friends of St Cynllo's Church Llangunllo are back in Llandrindod Wells at the Community Charity Shop raising money for the church. So Come And Bag A Bargain from midday Saturday October 22 to Friday 28 We look forward to seeing you - 2 - Priest for Bleddfa/Llangunllo Priest for Heyope/Beguildy Revd Canon Mark Beaton Revd Melia Cope The Rectory, School Lane, New Radnor The Vicarage, Church Street, Knighton Tel. 01544 350342 Tel. 01547 528566 [email protected] [email protected] Monday is MarkÊs day off. Monday is MeliaÊs day off. Ministry Area Curate St David’s, Heyope Revd Linda Watson Churchwardens Craig-y-Lea, Presteigne Road, Knighton Robert Forbath 01547 528 232 Tel. 01547 520358 Judy North 01547 529 165 [email protected] Sidesman: L Woodside-Jones Tuesday is LindaÊs day off. St Mary Magdalene’s, Bleddfa St Michael’s, Beguildy Churchwarden Churchwardens David Gavin 01547 510 637 Fay Payne 01547 510 320 Benefice Wardens Phil Fourie 01547 510 347 Bob Williams 01547 550 142 Sidesman: Robert Reynolds [email protected] Flowers & Cleaning: 26 Sep – 09 Oct Robert Forbath 01547 528 232 Yvonne & Fay. 10-23 Oct Kath & [email protected] Jayne. 24 Oct – 6 Nov Emma & Sandra. Benefice Minutes Secretary St Cynllo’s, Llangunllo Jenny Williams 01547 550 142 Churchwardens Benefice Correspondence Sec. Isabel Morris 01547 550 689 Isabel Morris 01547 550 689 Pam Livingstone-Lawn 01547 550 Benefice Treasurer Hilary Howcroft 01547 520 080 Reader Emeritus Laura Woodside-Jones 01547 520 266 Health and Safety Officer Bob Williams 01547 550 142 Cover: Melchizedek, the Old Testament High Priest, receives offerings of bread and wine from Abraham who kneels before him. Melchizedek holds bread from the basket of loaves and lifts the offering of wine in a chalice which appears to be burning, but is it is actually the waving flag, probably held by AbrahamÊs nephew, Lot. The tent houses the Ark of the Covenant containing the Ten Commandments. Above the tent is a tree with red pomegranates to show righteousness. The sun symbolises God with the clouds to indicate that God has received the offering. The image is from a series of scenes at the same church as featured last month. Unit 1, Craven Arms Business Park, Craven Arms, Shropshire SY7 8NR Tel: 01588 673972, [email protected] - 3 - Table of Contents Letter from Linda...........................................................................................5 ChildrenÊs Page..............................................................................................6 Bleddfa Stories...............................................................................................7 Welsh Names ................................................................................................7 Heyope Summer Lunch..................................................................................8 Llanfair WI News............................................................................................8 Needles and Pins..........................................................................................11 Ramblers October Walks...............................................................................12 Pig in a Poke................................................................................................13 Big Breakfast at Vedwllwydd, Dutlas..............................................................15 Bleddfa Specials...........................................................................................16 Open the Book - The Unforgiving Servant.....................................................18 Knucklas and District Notes .........................................................................20 Recipe – Rowan Berry and Crab Apple Jelly..................................................24 Gratitude and Generosity..............................................................................30 Holy Days in October...................................................................................33 CynogÊs Magic Torc ...................................................................................33 Diary for October 2016................................................................................37 October Readings.........................................................................................38 October Church Schedule.............................................................................40 Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. – Buddha It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. – Ramakrishna The Beacon is created in PagePlusX8. The text is Souvenir, titles in Verdana. - 4 - Dear Friends We have now reached that time of the year where farmers are working hard to bring in the harvest. Once Âall is safely gathered inÊ we in the church celebrate with a Harvest Festival. This quote comes from our famous hymn ÂWe plough the fields and scatterÊ and is a favourite of many people. It was originally written in German by the poet Matthias Claudius in 1782. This was then set to music in 1800, and translated into English by Jane Montgomery Campbell in 1861. The tradition of celebrating Harvest Festivals in our churches began in 1843, when the Reverend Robert Hawker invited parishioners to a special thanksgiving service at his church at Morwenstow in Cornwall. This led to the custom that we know today of decorating churches with home-grown produce for the service. I like to see our churches decorated with home-grown produce as it shows that all the hard work in bringing in the harvest has been achieved and that we as GodÊs people can thank him for providing all that we have. God shares his goodness with us, which is the love that is in his heart. He also calls us to go and to share what we have with others. Please accept my grateful thanks for supporting me in thought, with prayer and with your presence, for my ordination at Brecon Cathedral and also on the Sunday at my first Eucharist. Thank you also for your generous giving which contributed to a home communion set. For someone who loves to visit and meet people this is a gift that is rather special and is something that I will treasure. I look forward to seeing you all. With love in Christ, Linda Home Communion Set - 5 - Children’s Page SWIM, FISH, SWIM How do you make a paper fish swim? Cut a fish shape from a sheet of ordinary writing paper. Make it 10-12cm long, and decorate it making sure that the St FRANCIS colours won’t run when the fish gets wet. In the centre of the 4th October is the feast day of St fish’s body cut a small circle and Francis of Assisi. When Francis then a very narrow slit from the came to God people thought he tail to the circle. had gone mad and even his own father disowned him. But Francis’ simple way of life soon attracted others. He and his companions Now, keeping its surface dry, went out to preach two by two. gently lay the fish on the surface Unlike the preachers and priests of a bath or large bowl of water that people were used to, they wore and carefully place a few drops sackcloth and went barefoot. They of cooking oil into the central were different in other ways too; hole. The oil will expand through they lived a very simple life and the slit and drive the fish through celebrated God’s creation. the water. And to Francis all of God's creation was equally important. In one famous story a wolf had been eating people. The town wanted to kill the wolf but Francis talked the wolf into never killing again. And the townspeople made sure that the wolf always had plenty to eat. What’s black and white and Even blindness did not discourage goes round and round? Francis’ spirit when he wrote his A zebra stuck in a revolving beautiful ‘Canticle of the Sun’ door. praising God through the miracle of His creation. Francis died aged Why did the homeless turtle cross the road? only 45, worn out with years of poverty and wandering. To get to the Shell station. - 6 - Bleddfa Stories special weekend is coming up at the Bleddfa Centre and Church with A James Roose-Evans, founder of the Creative Centre. James says „I shanÊt be giving a lecture as such but shall be telling the story of how the Bleddfa Centre has grown from a tiny seed in a most unlikely setting for a Centre (in the 1970s Radnor was the least populated county in the country, with no traffic lights, and Bleddfa a tiny hamlet!) I shall be referring to some of the individuals who helped us in the early years . and what the central aim of the Bleddfa Trust is.‰ On Sunday there will be „a recital, ÂThe Journey Thus FarÊ with a musician, either a cellist or a harpist. It is a selection of those poems and passages of prose that have shaped me thus far linked with stories and reflections.‰ On Sunday, Oct 30th, at 3pm there will be a Choral Evensong at Bleddfa with the Invoice Singers, as part of this weekend. Contact the Bleddfa Centre for further details: www.bleddfacentre.co.uk 01547 550377 Welsh